Dominique Moran

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Dominique Moran is a British academic geographer. She is a professor in carceral geography at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham. [1]

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Early life and education

Moran was born in Wigan in Lancashire, UK. Her father, Jo Moran was a credit draper and ornithologist, mountaineer and wildlife photographer. He was the first person to photograph the Leach's Petrel at the nest, and the first to climb the cliffs of the Noup of Noss in Shetland. [2] Her mother Margaret (née Hilton) was a carer for disabled people. [2] She studied geography at Christ Church, University of Oxford, graduating in 1995 with a First and the Gibbs Prize, [3] and then completed a DPhil in geography at Hertford College, Oxford [1] where she held the Mortimer May Senior Scholarship 1996–2000. [4]

Career

After research fellowships at the Universities of Warwick and Birmingham, Moran moved in 2004 to a lectureship at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, where she was made professor in Carceral Geography in 2018. [1] She held a visiting fellowship at the Aleksanteri Institute of the University of Helsinki in 2011. [5]

Moran wrote Carceral Geography: Spaces and Practices of Incarceration [6] (2015), and co-edited Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention [7] (2013) with Nick Gill and Deirdre Conlon; Historical Geographies of Prisons: Unlocking the Usable Carceral Past [8] (2015) with Karen Morin; Carceral Spatiality: Dialogues between Geography and Criminology [9] (2017) with Anna Schliehe; and The Palgrave Handbook of Prison and the Family [10] (2019) with Marie Hutton. Other writing has been published in the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, The Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Progress in Human Geography and Theoretical Criminology.

She was the founding chair (2017-2021) of the Carceral Geography Working Group [11] of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers.

Press coverage

Moran's research with Phil Jones, Jacob Jordaan and Amy Porter into the effects of greenspace on the wellbeing of prisoners and prison staff [12] [13] was covered in articles in The Guardian and The Independent newspapers in 2021. She participated in a 'Locked-Up Living' podcast in 2021, talking about her research [14] into nature contact in prison.

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  1. 1 2 3 "Dominique Moran". University of Birmingham. Retrieved 10 Aug 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. 1 2 "Jo Moran Obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 Aug 2021.
  3. ↑ "Gibbs Prize in Geography". Oxford University Gazette. 12 Oct 1995. Retrieved 10 Aug 2021.
  4. ↑ "Dominique Moran". University of Birmingham. Archived from the original on 2020-10-22. Retrieved 10 Aug 2021.
  5. ↑ "Visiting Fellows 2011-2012". Aleksanteri Institute. 13 November 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-11-28. Retrieved 10 Aug 2021.
  6. ↑ "Carceral Geography". Archived from the original on 2020-09-19.
  7. ↑ "Carceral Spaces". Archived from the original on 2020-05-30.
  8. ↑ "Historical Geographies of Prisons". Archived from the original on 2020-08-10.
  9. ↑ "Carceral Spatiality". Archived from the original on 2019-11-30.
  10. ↑ "The Palgrave Handbook of Prison and the Family". Archived from the original on 2020-11-23.
  11. ↑ "Carceral Geography Working Group of the RGS-IBG". Archived from the original on 2012-06-26.
  12. ↑ Hancock, Sam (26 Feb 2021). "More trees in prison 'could lead to fewer cases of self-harm and violence'". The Independent. Retrieved 27 Feb 2021.
  13. ↑ Barkham, Patrick (25 Feb 2021). "Plants linked to lower levels of violence and self-harm in prisons". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 Feb 2021.
  14. ↑ "Locked Up Living". Archived from the original on 2021-08-13.
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